As we skate on the edge of whatever we consider this moment’s primary and most appropriate reality and yearn for a new drug that will take us beyond a Neanderthal consciousness of the likes represented in “Altered States”; we are presented with so many hurdles to leap over, more than we ever expected in the first place. I would like to present to you an option that will be paramount in obtaining not only a righteous mindset, but also the necessary skills to overcome any mental obstacles that might present themselves.
As bosses loom over you with deadlines that cut your mental integrity with the razor sharp ability of David Spade replying to Chris Farley’s “you know a lot of people go to college for 7 years” with “I know, they’re called doctors”, as bills pile up and money becomes as slow as the career of Gabourey Sidibe after we move on to our next charity obsession (I think there’s a guy with a closed head injury who’ll be in Sean Penn’s next movie), and as molten fires of apathy erupt into your mindset and Dante's Peak begins to corrupt your entire aura with stagnation please keep one thing in mind.
The world is constantly keeping you from doing what you do best. The only option that you have is to succeed beyond the worst failure that anyone wishes upon you. The earnest truth is that the simplest key to happiness is not found in water, I don’t care how magical Marlee Matlin was in What the Bleep Do We Know? The honest truth is that the key to happiness is to recognize that the core of human nature is jealousy.
If you hate someone so much because of their work, odds are you are jealous that the concept was not yours to begin with. The pivotal example for me is Stanley Kubrick. For years I have hated his films, I realize that I was just unfriended and unfollowed by just about everybody in here just for saying that, but I have always found him over-hyped and over analyzed. If you have to think about a movie so much that they can teach a college curriculum about the content, I was always obliged to look the other way. But recently I have begun to realize this whole jealousy perspective and things have changed for Mr. Kubrick and I.
While I still see much absurdity in the orgy scenes of Eyes Wide Shut (as did most everybody else as I recall) the scene that I would like to call attention to today is the moment at the end of Full Metal Jacket where a solider is faced with the moral dilemma of either letting a child live, or killing an enemy sniper. The crux of the scenario of course is that the sniper is the child. Of course we all know how that scene ended and the evils of war are magnified even more as we learn that the entire Gulf of Tonkin incident was a lie to begin with, thusly the entire Vietnam happenstance was just one that occurred because Johnson wanted to show the world just how big his nuts were. Of course Kubrick knew this when he made the movie, that’s why he made it so dirty, he stripped it all away, and he killed us along with everyone else in that movie with his honesty, and brutal integrity.
And for years I hated Kubrick. Now I see that I only hated him because the scenes, images, stories, and characters that he presented were so organic and original. They were people that were real and showing their true nature, be it a man stalking his family down in a hotel, the inception of knowledge during the dawn of man, or making people think drastically different thoughts when they hear “Singin in the Rain” Kubrick was a genius and I was jealous. I still am, but now I am at least able to accept his talent.
The core of human nature is the thought that we are the ones that have the best toys. We want to be the smartest, fastest, brightest shining star. We have the technology and we want to rebuild ourselves. We want the best for ourselves and we don’t want to be outdone, and the jealous nature of man keeps us hating those who succeed over us in any desired genre of tasks. Whether you’re a lumberjack and you’re jealous because the guy next to you looks better in women’s panties or you’re Mel Gibson and you’re so damn pissed that Liam Neeson is so much better at looking for his kid than you are, the core is jealousy. Even the Bible says that God is a jealous god, that’s why his golden rule is don’t cheat on me.
So keep that in mind, know that if someone hates you, they’re probably just jealous of your abilities. You undoubtedly out do them in some key area in the arena of their passion that they actually despise you it. There is something that you do that makes them boil because they wish that they would have thought of it first, or simply they wish they had your skills. The hatred is merely an indicator that they are jealous of you. Then again it could be that, or maybe you’re just an asshole.
Peace..
Nicely put, and once we own that we can work on transcending ourselves. But I don't always feel that way, actually. I mean, hmmmm...so often I am truly happy for and inspired by other people, and really root for them. However, the ugly green monster will appear, and when it does...Ugg.